I think it is a good opportunity for China to show her brand new image to the world with Ms Peng, the new first lady. as we all know for many years, the life of the president family is always mysterious in China and people can only see their apperances when the couple visit foreign coutries or attend important events,as a contrary, the first lady in other countries, especially in the western, the first lady frequently show up on tv, attend various activies, do charities,or encourage people in trouble, whatever, they do their best to give impact to people and to help them. I think Ms Peng will take the role like this in China in the future and fullfill her responsibility and obligations as the first lady and a famous musician.

Chinese people are so proud for Ms. Xi, Peng Li-Yuan. Because she is as beautiful as her songs. She has versatile qualities in her & she is involved in various charity works which are so welcomed by the people of China. We must want such a talented first lady who will use her intrinsic merit for the welfare of the people than to make her beautiful publicly.

Under both the KMT and the CPC during the past hundred years, China has followed consistently a policy of gender equality. Today, women 'hold up half the sky'. That is one of the reasons why China has become the second largest economy of the world: a country where each of its 1.3 billion people counts. Other developing countries such as those in the Middle East and South Asia should follow China's footsteps as fast as possible.

Well, Ms. Xi, our new first lady characteristic of the contemporary China’s mature female, is the first-class singer in military (owning the high rank) and Peking University’s lecturer of music theory. Ms. Xi, Peng Li-yuan, can express the cultivated aspect of China.

Although I belong to another faction of Li Ke-qiang, I know this couple and can talk about something on this blog. Ms. Xi is Mr. Xi’s second-marriage wife since 1986 after Xi had unhappy marriage ending in 1982 with Ke Ling-ling (basically, this relative story couldn’t be said too much). Mr. and Ms. Xi have a daughter, now studying in Harvard University. Ms. Xi has some relatives in Taiwan - some coincidence of Xi to be engaged in Taiwan’s affairs - her aunt, a local important supporter of Chen Shui-bian, lives in Chiayi. As a result, Xi has a marriage which reflects the tendency of liberty. Moreover, Ms. Xi is expected to do better than the predecessor, Jiang Ze-min’s Wang Yie-ping and Hu Jing-tao’s Liu Yong-qing, who is a fan of computer. Especially, Jiang and Jiang’s wife impressed many world’s leader at the contemporary period during their officially foreign visits.

From 1980 while Ms. Xi was at age of 18, she won the champion in Shandong TV’s program “National Folk Songs” as a pride of The Miao minority. As Dr. Yang Zong-mei’s books (a series of our new leaders’ biography), during 1980s, she owned the fame as her teacher Jin Tie-lin and senior-in-school Li Gu-yi. Due to Ms. Xi's then job in military, where Xi began to work as an intern, Xi had a chance to be introduced in front of Ms. Xi by some military generals. Besides Dr. Yang’s, Ya-zhou Weekly in 2008 also reported their some well-known stories when Xi was the chief of Beijing Olympic concerned of preparation. Min-Jing Monthly did, too.

For me, they are kind of social relationship. Therefore, I put forward some policy smoothly in Beijing by the couple’s support. In other words, I don’t waste my time after Chen Shui-bian, who took my advice in tenure, steps down in 2008. And Xi and Li Ke-qiang takes over the power in Beijing. By the way, Li is married to Cheng Hong, a professor of English at the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing. Both Li and Cheng are award-winning scholarship, keeping a tea-table public image.

Basically, in China’s modern history (after Empress Dowager Cixi), “the first lady” is a big issue among politician, journalists and historians. Always with a thought of mimic of Cixi, these three kinds of figures also gave a beautiful image for a promotion of China’s international position, such as Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Soong Qing-lin, Chiang Kai-shek’s Soong Mei-ling or Lien Chan’s Fang Yu elected as one of China’s Lady, Chen Shui-bian’s Wu Shu-chen. These four once owned well-known prestige as a metaphor of powerful regime. So does Xi’s. Of course, there isn’t absolute standard arranging the rank of first lady in the world and it’s an error. Instead, to show the style of both person and nation is the key to successful foreign mission, like Soong Mei-lin’s address in American Congress while second world war processed.

Well, some may ask Ma Ying-jeou’s wife, Zhou Mei-ching who graduated from Harvard University with Ma, for some peace-like reason. But, very sorry, let me omit them.

The author seems to have forgotten Carla Bruni already, who continued her pop music career while serving as the First Lady of France. One hopes Mrs. Xi can also continue her career and charity works; it would be quite a waste to give up her talents.

Thanks. Aren't we also forgetting about President Liu Shaoqi's wife Wang Guangmei? She was widely viewed as a beautiful, articulate, and sophisticated first lady of the PRC and went on state visits with her husband. Too bad that caused her to suffer much during the Cultural Revolution. Still, despite her sufferings, she worked late in her life to found the "Hope Project" to aid the poor throughout China. A truly remarkable lady indeed....